{"id":1769,"date":"2022-08-08T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coaching-expats.org\/en\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:25:18","slug":"international-business-coach-sylvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coaching-expats.org\/en\/international-business-coach-sylvia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Founder and Managing Director of Johnson & Partner Consulting GmbH<\/strong> Psychologist, Consultant, Specialist in Mental Health & Organizational Resilience.\u00a0Since 2019 Coaching Division to develop Leadership & Team Culture for Global Work Environments<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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24 years<\/strong> CEO of Johnson & Partner Consulting GmbH, specializing in organizational consulting and mental health. Six of those years included responsibility for personnel and program management in Bangladesh, Sudan, and South Sudan. Since 2019 boutique agency for international talent and leadership development, supported by a network of carefully selected experts in coaching, training, and facilitation.<\/p>

20+ years<\/strong> work experience as psychologist (BDP, FSP), psychotherapist (IGST<\/a>, DGH, EMDR, PEP), trauma expert, mental health consultant, trainer, and supervisor across multiple programs.\u00a0

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Sylvia develops customized programs for leadership and team development in complex, multicultural environments and connects clients with qualified professionals for implementation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Inspired by Maya Angelou
    <\/strong> \u00abYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.\u00bb<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Sylvia Johnson has spent four decades working across four continents in leadership, consulting, and mental health roles. She studied Cultural Anthropology (Freiburg\/Germany) and Psychology (T\u00fcbingen\/Germany), and began her professional journey as a clinical psychologist in the U.S., focusing on health transitions during the early years of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic.<\/p>

    After returning to Europe, she specialized in psycho-traumatology, collective trauma, crisis psychology and MHPSS, treating and supporting survivors of war and torture. Over the next 20 years, she worked as a trainer, consultant, and program lead in post-conflict and disaster regions in East-Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and the Balkans. Her work consistently bridged psychological insight with organizational needs, especially in fragile and high-pressure environments.<\/p>

    “After four decades of international work, I wouldn\u2019t say it becomes easier to transform complexity into synergy rather than simplify too quickly. Excellent results often require a shift in mindset\u2014one that combines expertise, context, and cultural difference into meaningful, trust-based collaboration.\u00a0<\/em>In the end, it\u2019s not just what we know that matters, but how we bring it together.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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